Thomas Baynham ('The Blacksmith') (1639-1694)
Born: 1639
Parents: Thomas Baynham (‘The Wire Drawer’) and Mary
Married: 1666 to Joane Trapin
Died: 1694
Thomas, my seven times great-grandfather, was born in 1639.
He married Joane Trapin in December 1666 at the church of St. Michael and All Angels in Brampton Abbotts, Herefordshire when they were both about 27. They had seven children: Jane in 1667; Sarah in 1668; Alice in 1672; Hannah in 1675; Joan in 1676; John, my six times great-grandfather, in 1679; Stephen in 1690.
Thomas died in 1694, aged 55.
Joane died in 1700, aged about 61.
My seven times great-grandfather Thomas was baptised at the church of St. Nicholas in Gloucester on 25th August 1639.
Banns were read on 4th, 11th and 18th December 1666 in the church of St. Michael and All Angels at Brampton Abbotts, Herefordshire for his marriage to Joane Trapin.
The couple were referred to as ‘Thomas Bainham & Joane Trapping’ in the record of the banns.
Thomas and Joan were married on 22nd December 1666, when he was 27.
He was a blacksmith, as evidenced by the later burial record of his wife as ‘Joane Baynam widow of Thomas Baynham Black Smith’.
Together they had seven children, all of whom were baptised in the church of St. Michael and All Angels at Brampton Abbotts:
Jane, baptised on 19th October 1667.
Sarah, baptised on 14th March 1668.
Thomas was a churchwarden in 1668 and signed the Bishops Transcript.
Mary, baptised on 18th November 1671.
Again Thomas signed the transcript as churchwarden in 1671.
Alice, baptised on 23rd April 1672.
She died later the same year and was buried in the family church on 27th October.
Hannah, baptised on 10th April 1675.
Alas, she also died in her birth year and was buried (as ‘Hanna Bainham’) on 1st June – along with a Mary Bainham, ‘spinster’.
Joan, baptised as ‘Jone’ on 27th February 1676. She later married John Clark there on 29th October 1706. They had at least one child: John (1710-1766). She was buried as ‘Jone Clark’ at the church of St Peter and St Paul in Marlborough, Wiltshire on 6th Nov 1691.
In 1678 Thomas was again signing transcrips as churchwarden of the family church St. Michael and All Angels at Brampton Abbotts.
This registry entry records the burial of two Bainhams – Jonas, the son of Alice on 27th August and another Thomas on 10th September.
John, my six times great-grandfather, baptised on 11th October 1679.
Stephen, baptised on 6th April 1690. Recorded later as ‘Stephanus Baynham’ he married Maria Howells on 7th February 1713, at Hentland in Herefordshire – presumably at the church of St. Dubricius.
Thomas died in 1694, aged 55.
He was buried at St. Michael’s church, on 24th February.
His wife Joane died in 1700, aged 61.
She too was buried at St. Michael’s church, on 16th September.
Acknowledgements:
- Baptism, marriage and burial records – www.ancestry.co.uk and www.familysearch.org